Below you will find a menu of weight loss surgeries to choose from, with each having its own benefits and risks and statistics on success rate.
Roux-en-Y is still the preferred method of surgery for most bariatric surgeons. It's been around for quite awhile and involves stapling the stomach pouch in order to create a smaller stomach area. Passage of food is also faster because you bypass a section of the small intestine. We call that rapid transit time. The smaller stomach area,...
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